diff -r 57ed1e24f8f3 Lib/test/test_urllib.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib.py	Sun Oct 09 11:54:42 2011 +0200
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib.py	Sun Oct 09 17:07:10 2011 +0100
@@ -231,8 +231,13 @@
 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
 ''')
         try:
-            self.assertRaises(urllib.error.HTTPError, urlopen,
-                              "http://python.org/")
+            with self.assertRaises(urllib.error.HTTPError) as cm:
+                urlopen("http://python.org/")
+            the_exception = cm.exception
+            self.assertEquals(
+                the_exception.msg, 
+                "Found Redirection to url 'file://guidocomputer.athome."
+                "com:/python/license' is not allowed.")
         finally:
             self.unfakehttp()